The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the metropolitan area of Buffalo, New York. They sold out every game in 2008. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). play their home games in the suburb of Orchard Park, and beginning in 2008, one home game is played in Toronto. The Bills began competitive play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger.